Teaching-Learning-Sharing of Xena Crystal LC Huang.

This site, in addition to the current posts relating to teaching+learning in Social Science fields, Educational Technology, Cross-Culture Observations, and Art, it also includes my previous studies as a grad student. (At the current stage, no guest blogs, nor advertisements).

ふるさとはどこです かと
あなたは きいた
You ask me where is my hometown
この町の生まれですよと
I say, "I was born in this city."
私は 答えた
ああ、そして
あなたが いつの 日か
Ohh, How I wish that one day you will take
あなたのふるさとへ
me to return to your hometown.
つれて 行って くれる日を
夢みたの
My dream and love find the sweet home.
生まれたての この愛の
ゆくえを祈ったの

ふるさとはどこです かと 私は きいた
I ask you where your hometown is
南の海の町と あなたは 答えた
You say, "just near by the lake city."
ああ、そして 幼い日のことを
Oh, those were the days of memory
瞳を かがやかせ
The eyes shine with stars
歌うように 夢のように 話したわ
Like melodies, like dreams
ふたりして 行かないかと 私には きこえたの
You share them with me
ああ、だけど 今では 思い出ね
But, could we get together
あなたはふるさとへ
to my hometown?
ただ ひとり ただ ひとり 帰るのね
Now, it all became memories
ふるさとは そんなにも
You went home alone
あたたかい ものなのね.
Wasn't it warm and beautiful?

Sun Lasting The original short poem/lyrics is simple and elegant.
Just now, a hurry translation destroyed the beauty !

Sun Lasting Many animals migrate (or hibernate), instinctually. Human beings migrate socio-economically with Voluntary and INvoluntary conditions.
I respect those who migrate to the Home of Brave and the Land of Free (though, barely existing nowadays) - INvoluntarily, for hardship (e.g., prejudice, discrimination, re-adjustments in multiple dimensions of psychology, economic conditions and the whole cultural packages...etc), and death are accompanied incessantly.

Peter Hogaboam There is a famous book about this idea of living life backwards. The plot of it is that this is the only way Nazi’s could be moral.Sun Lasting Peter, thanks for sharing.

Sun Lasting Here are what Peter mentioned (?) for reference:Living Life Backward: How Ecclesiastes Teaches Us to Live in Light of the End (Christian book) Living Life Backwards by Peter Wells Søren Kierkegaard also touched on it, "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." and others.

Sun Lasting Mr. Frazer is one of my handful fb friends who are erudite with wisdom. I learn a lot from him (I have never met him). Unfortunately, while trying to send a birthday blessing today, I just found he deactivated his fb account. Please help!

Sun Lasting Breaking an old news!!!!
Have you ever wondered how Facebook manipulates the mass with "like" button to "democratize" the social media psyche, forcing "bad money drives away good money" policy....in order to enhance this corporate company's profits? http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-google...

Sun Lasting What are the potential solutions to - There Is No Free Lunch Under The Sun?Here is my old devil's advocate:I am willingly to co-pay a reasonable amount of the overhead that these Giant Big Brothers in the private sector put in for the mass harvest by collaborating with Secret Agencies/Institutions (Biggest Brothers). So, is securing the legal rights to prevent from the further abuse/profiteering of privacy possible?

In order to make this wish come true to prevent students from getting bored, all the 7 classes (art appreciation, diversity studies, and sociology) were assigned home works to "keep busy" - by this "kind and thoughtful" instructor!

I shouted it loud after exams: Promise me, don't end up in hospitals or jail.... !
In fact, I was the most impatient one to plunge into my break!

Sun LastingHere comes, the most Radical Feminist that I have ever known !

Sun LastingHaving
a dozen bells is a mandate on her when she commands to take a walk in
the back yard. Usually she tears half a dozen off without scaring away
a butterfly or bumblebee. (Below, the 4-month old Athena - who knows
that she turns out to be a strong feminist, in 2006, adopted along with
her mother who was stray/abandoned in a barn).

Sun LastingShe,
Athena, an independent feline thinker, intrepid doer, regal activist,
ferocious warrior, unbelievable creative-minder, supreme imaginer,
powerful sociology-economic -ideological dissenter, and .... just to
name a few regarding this Super-sentient being :3! She generously teaches me with free lessons about how to be a better human being.

John Pack The sad truth is that we know that the psychotic behavior will, in all probability, affect us so we feel the need to be aware, even though it hurts.Sun Lasting The Pavlov' classic conditioning on the nation's psyche may be one of the main reasons to create such a dilemma? I see those news junkies, pundits, mouthpieces, and the rest of the high-end and low-end people, both hating it or loving it, reinforcing one another, and are so addicted to these "ebullient" daily dramas
(見獵心"狂"). What a political-opioid epidemic ! As to me.....well, I do refrain myself !

LikeShow more reactions · Reply · See Translation · 1dSun Lasting replied · 1 ReplySun LastingIs this a new born Governmental Anarchism, thoughtfully, to save taxpayers' money to subside the Royal family's free and intense traveling as well as vacations for the family's business :)? Aren't there many stubborn chefs (surely, nepotism, favoritism, on the rise) in the kitchen, who cook no meals, or damage your stomach- yes or no, in most social institutions, public or private - having great fun to play a tea-cup in a tempest?

M.S. Sociology, University of Wisconsin-MadisonMajor: Social Psychology focusing on Social MovementsMinors: Journalism and Women's Studies. Thesis Title: Multilevel Analysis of A Social Movement-1947, 228 Social Uprising in Taiwan, 1993.

2015, Dissertation: Preferences, Pedagogical Strategies,and Challenges of Instructors Teaching in Multiple Delivery Formats within A 2-Year College Context. Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction, Learning Technologies (previous Instructional System and Technology), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

2009, Title: “What is the Lived Experience of Designing and Teaching Multiple Delivery Methods -Live Meeting, Hybrid, Online, and Face To Face (f2f) within a Semesterat a Technical College Setting”? Paper presented at the 2009 AECT International Convention, Louisville, KY Published in the Convention Proceedings, and in the ERIChttp://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED511355.pdf

2009, Title:Learning Information Technologies as Empowering Tools to Narrow the Gender Gap in the Rural-Urban Spectrum - a Review from Global to Domestic Perspective (Project Leader: Dr. Susan Walker) Paper presented at the 2009 AECT International Convention, Louisville, KY Published in the Convention Proceedings, and in the ERIChttp://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED511355.pdf

2008, Title: Green and Dao “The Wonder of the Tao-Six Meditation on Science, Spirit, and the Future of Economics” Presented at University of Minnesota- Twin Cities, 2008http://tinyurl.com/XenaCrystalLCHuang-B

The next 5 accepted research projects, due to my job descriptions (mainly, as hired in a Non-Research Institution of the 2-year college setting, the school budget supports attendees, but not the researcher-presenters at that time), I was unable to attend/present to the conferences.

2015, Research proposal: Title: “How Could It Be, Two Identical Online Deliveries in One Composite, and One Did So Well, While the Other…” , accepted by Association of Educational Communication and Technologies (AECT) for presentation at the 2015 International Conference.

2010, Research proposal. Title: “Struggles and Triumphs– A Female Minority Social Science Instructor’s Reflection on Sociology Web-conference Course in Facilitating Disadvantaged Learners”, accepted by Association of Educational Communication and Technologies (AECT) for a presentation at the 2015 International Convention.

2010, Research proposal: Title: “From Quantity to Quality - Quality Matters! But, What and How Does It Matter? – Pursuing Online Courses Quality Assurance One Step at A Time!” accepted by the Association of Educational Communication and Technologies (AECT) for a presentation at the 2015 International Convention.

2010, Research proposal. Title: “Live Meeting: Web-conference Triumph in Sociology Course facilitation”, accepted by the League of Innovation for a presentation at the 2010 Maryland Conference.

2010, Research proposal. Title: “Constructing a Bio-ecological System of Teaching and Learning Environment for 2-year College”, accepted by the League of Innovation 2010 Maryland Conference

-----------------------------------------2008, Quantitative Research Project. Title:“Do The Knowledge Of Using The Internet And The Annual Income Level Affect The Total Life Skill Assessments Of Rural Low Income Mothers”? University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (as part of my collaborative research projects)

2007-8,Collaborative Research Project: Joined the “Rural Families Speak” – A Multistate, Longitudinal and Multidisciplinary research project, focusing on low-income women’s using information technology, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.

2007, research project presentation. Title: “Reflection on the Pedagogies of the Oppressor and the Oppressed”, at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Crystal

July 22 (W), 2015. Crystal at school.

About Crystal Li-chin Huang

My name is Li-chin (Crystal) Huang, an enthusiastic educator who passionately engages in integrating Arts, and Educational/Learning Technologies into my current Social Science teaching and learning.

My so-called - formal education, due to life circumstances, includes several majors: Sociology, focusing on Social Psychology, Socio-political Science, Studio Art/Art Education, Learning/Educational Technologies, with minors in Computer Science, Journalism, Women's Studies, and Military Education. I enjoy energetic, dynamic, inspiring, and serendipitous ways of teaching, learning, and sharing.

With a unique teaching load (an average of 21 credits/7 classes Per Semester, or 42 Per Academic Year), I manage myself as an educator-scholar to inspire students, friends, and folks for the common good.

AECT International Conference Presentation at Louisville KY: MDF

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